What headaches can you see from Trumps banned word list?
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So I found an article that lists all the words Trump has banned as woke language. My first thought was, how is the Justice Department supposed to function without using these very common words? Imagine describing a felon or even mentioning the word justice. Hell, prostitute is on the list. I guess he prefers to call them whores since its on his list. But really. I realize a lot of these words are associated with him. Censuses, I guess will be a thing of the past.
So what other issues can you see rising from this list?
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I think I heard he is deleting any records that reference the “Elona Gay”.
@Forever_Free Yes, its a WWII plane that was named after the pilots mother. Elona Gay and my understanding is they had to take down all pictures of the plane in museums because it has the word Gay, which was her last name. This is how idiotic things have gotten. Though I don’t know if the word gay is on the list, but I think he originally banned any word that may reference gayness, so I can see how idiots may decide to do away with it.
What kills me is that he says this are woke words. Justice and injustice are woke words?
This isn’t about woke words its about silencing people.
I can’t read the link since I don’t want to subscribe to the NYT, but I did a bit more research and that list of words comes from an order to the National Scientific Foundation, not to the government as a whole. And it wasn’t saying people couldn’t use those words during the day or in speeches or anything like that. It was saying that the NSF shouldn’t approve any grant applications that use those words. And looking at the list of words, they are all divisive. Even things like “all-inclusive” stopped meaning everyone is included a long time ago. It started being used as a cudgel to exclude some and promote others.
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-forbidden-dei-words/
I cannot read the link either, saw some terms before it locked me and am confused. What does it mean to ban words? I thought this was America.
Kinda silly that “female” is a woke word.
I want to be a counselor so I wonder how much this will all affect my field. Since social work needs all those terms… kind of important that we respect everyone.
Well, I’m going to chest-feed my nonbinary multicultural oppression, thank you very much.
Considering that the Trump administration is currently arresting people for criticizing Israel, a list of no-no words doesn’t surprise me.
It’s funny that the list is published in the NYTimes, which is famous for banning certain words from being used to report on Israel.
@seawulf575: ”It started being used as a cudgel to exclude some and promote others.”
“Excluded” is on the banned list. Can you please edit your post?
@hat If I were using that to get a grant from the NSF, I would have to, or have the grant shot down.
Black is banned but white is not.
Somehow, I don’t think we are getting the whole story/context here.
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